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Like every other living thing on Earth - past, present, and indeed future - we’re products of evolution. This might be hard for some to believe, but our evolutionary history has been dictated by the ...

Are humans natural born runners? Here’s why evolutionary and anatomical evidence suggests running was more central to our species than most would think. If you’ve ever marvelled while watching a ...

The uvula, a sturcture hanging from a part of the body people rarely think about, turns out to sit at the intersection of two of the most consequential developments in human evolution. Peer into ...

A new Tel Aviv University study challenges assumptions about the Neanderthal pelvis, finding that modern human males evolved a distinct walking mechanism.

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Excerpted from “Fed Up: What Evolution Reveals about Food, Diet, Health, and Eating Well” by Daniel Lieberman, the Edwin M. Lerner II Professor of Biological Sciences and Professor of Human ...

For all humanity's success as a species at the top of its game, it's likely that we'll never finish evolving. From passive selection pressures to those that are self-inflicted, the forces that shape ...